On Freedom And A Nation Of Pagan Idiots Part 1

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Posted by Ann Barnhardt – September 9, AD 2012 10:09 PM MST

Well, once again my email box is the ultimate testament to the sickening, nauseating, despicable ignorance and apostasy of the smoldering rubble of what is left of Christendom. In short, you people don’t get it, and don’t get it to such an unfathomable degree that even a miserable, cynical, jaded harpy like me is left gobsmacked by your staggering stupidity.

How, EXACTLY, can you subscribe to a religion and fail to grasp the most basic, obvious fundamentals of that religion? You people really are in it for the socializing, aren’t you? You don’t give a damn about the theology, the dogma or the TRUTH, you just go to see and be seen, and to be entertained in the most shallow, superficial terms possible. I cannot describe how sick that makes me to observe. The lack of integrity and the intellectual shallowness makes me SICK.

And yet, for some unfathomable reason, here I am about to attempt to explain simple, basic, rudimentary concepts to a culture in whom I have just epsilon above zero confidence in, because if I don’t do it, neither Pastor Jeremy at your neo-pagan Superfun Rockband church of the Latter Day Dumbasses™ nor Father Liza-Judy over at Holy Marxist Jazzhands parish will. So we’re all just stuck.

Here is just a sampling of the stupidity that I have received over the past few days. Bear in mind, almost every email that came in, came in from self-professed “Christians”, and one even came from a chap who proudly assured me of his superlative authority because he started and runs his very own “church” right out of his house. Look out. I might just break an ankle or get a hernia running to get a piece of that deep-fried orthodoxy on a stick.

1. Ann, you have to pay your taxes because you can’t possibly do any good in prison or dead.

2. Ann, self-sacrifice never accomplishes anything.

3. Ann, no one has ever heard of you and no one ever will hear of you, so if you go to prison or get killed it will be a total waste.

4. Ann, Obama and the IRS aren’t worth losing your freedom over. The only way you can accomplish anything is if you keep your freedom.

It’s just email after email like that. From Christians. What does one even say to stupidity that intense? Do you people not think about anything you say? Perhaps a better question would be simply, do you people not think at all? You have brains. For the love of God, will you PLEASE, PLEASE use them?

Let’s go point by point.

1. Ann, you have to pay your taxes because you can’t possibly do any good in prison or dead.

You Bible-believing Christians do realize that eleven of the twelve apostles plus St. Paul were repeatedly arrested, imprisoned and eventually executed, and St. John was arrested, jailed, and exiled on an island because Our Lord miraculously saved him from execution (he was thrown into a cauldron of boiling oil and climbed out totally unhurt). You do realize that St. Paul wrote Ephesians, Colossians, Phillipians and Philemon while IN PRISON, right? You do realize that countless thousands of Christians over the last 2000 years have been imprisoned and executed, right? Oh, but they never accomplished anything. Heck, Jesus Himself was an idiot for getting crossways with the powers that be and getting Himself killed. Just think how much good He could have done if He had just lived to old age. Because, you know, nothing was accomplished on Calvary, right? Idiots.

You know what I think? I think that most of you are so obtuse from a lifetime of TV addiction that deep down you don’t actually believe that ANYTHING “historical” actually happened. I think that most of you, deep down, don’t actually believe that any of these people actually existed, or that any of these things REALLY happened. I think that most of you operate on a level in which everything outside of your direct, personal experience is treated as FICTION. I think that most of you, deep down, don’t actually believe that there were real people named Peter, Paul, John, Matthew, Andrew, Bartholomew, James or Philip. I don’t think that most of you believe that all of the saints and martyrs over the last twenty centuries have been actual, real people. I think most of you mentally blow all of it off as stories and fairy tales. In fact, I think that most of you, deep down, don’t actually believe that Jesus Christ is a real, living person who actually got whipped until He was skinned and then nailed to a Cross to slowly asphyxiate. I suspect that the majority of you, deep down, don’t actually believe in the Incarnation. No, I think that most of you people think that Jesus is an “idea” or a “philosophy” that was given a fictional narrative to “flesh it out.”

If you can provide any other explanation for the fact that you all claim to be “devout, Bible-believing Christians” and yet display such monstrous cognitive dissonance, reading about the imprisonment and martyrdom of the Apostles and Martyrs, and claiming to be saved by the Shed Blood and death of Our Lord in one moment, and then writing me and saying, “You can’t possibly do any good in prison or dead” in the next moment, I’m all ears.

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